why is it that people all around the world the majority celebrate jesus birthdate on december when they?

Question

dont know for a fact that it was on december when he was born.

Answer 1

I read somewhere because of a popular new year holiday called "Yule" from the old religion that the church wanted to stop the people from celebrating, so they replaced it with a christian holiday.

Answer 2

The early church was trying to convert pagans who were sun worshipers. They wanted to make it easier for them to convert.
The sun worshipers would celebrate on Dec 25, with an orgy and giving gifts and getting drunk and flowers. Then spring would come and they would say see there it worked. They were afraid if they didn't do it spring wouldn't come. So the Church incorporated it into teachings by saying it was Jesus birthday and that is what we are celebrating. We know he was 33 1/2 years old when he died and that was at passover time. So he couldn't have been born in Dec. Had to be around end of Sept or Oct.
Most customs associated with Christmas the evergreen tree, giving of gifts and feasts and drinking came from that celebration.
Santa Clause is a lie, and a fabrication of some ancient myth.
But a lot of people celebrate it who don't even believe Jesus was the messiah. It is just a fun day. But shouldn't really have anything to do with Christianity. Because it really doesn't.

Answer 3

they celebrate it in december because that is when the church decided to put the celebration. the church thought that if they made their holidays close to the old pagan holidays, it would make it easier to convert the pagans from the old religion to the new.

the pagan celebration is yule, usually on december 21st, it is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. this means that the very next day, the sun is up for a little longer. the pagans celebrated this day as the 'birth of the sun god'. not too far of a stretch to change the wording a bit, move it a few days, call it celebration of 'the birth of the son of god' and go from there.

the bible says that the lambs were in the field at the time of the birth of christ. this tells u that it was either april or september, because that's when the lambs are in the field.

another holiday that's similar is ostara. that's the spring equinox. ostara, easter.....hmmm sound alot alike to me! lol the pagans celebrated this fertility holiday with eggs. rabbits are well known to be used for sexual symbols. hence the easter bunny with his eggs.

there is alot of pagan influences in the bible as well. at one time, all lived together in relative peace and even worshipped in the same buildings.

Answer 4

One of the ways christianity became so popular is by integrating into the religious beliefs of other groups of people. The day they chose in December is the same date as a pagan holiday. Easter eggs come from a pagan fertility celebration. Praying to the virgin mary (heretical acording to the scripture) gave some people a goddess to pray to. It is all marketing.

Answer 5

Christianity was the official religion of Rome, and Christmas day is the holiday of Saturnalia the ancient Roman holiday. No one knows Jesus real birthday so this works just as well.

Answer 6

actually i believe he was purported to have been born in july. :) december 25 was originally a pagan festival (sol invictus i think). :)

Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 which celebrates the birth of Jesus. Eastern Orthodox Churches, which use the Julian Calendar to determine feast days, celebrate on January 7 by the Gregorian Calendar. Both dates are merely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of Jesus.

The word Christmas is derived from Middle English Christemasse and from Old English Cristes mæsse.[1] It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass". The name of the holiday is often shortened to Xmas because Roman letter "X" resembles the Greek letter Χ (chi), an abbreviation for Christ (Χριστός).

In Western countries, Christmas has become the most economically significant holiday of the year. The popularity of Christmas can be traced in part to its status as a winter festival. Many cultures have their most important holiday in winter because there is less agricultural work to do at this time. Examples of winter festivals that are believed by some to have influenced Christmas include the pre-Christian festivals of Yule and Saturnalia, and many of the traditions associated with the holiday have origins in these pagan winter celebrations.

In Western culture, the holiday is characterized by the exchange of gifts among friends and family members, some of the gifts being attributed to Santa Claus (also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Father Frost). However, various local and regional Christmas traditions are still practiced, despite the widespread influence of American, British and Australian Christmas motifs disseminated by film, popular literature, television, and other media.

Origin of holiday
Although no one knows what date Jesus was born on, there were several reasons for early Christians to favor December 25. The date is nine months after the Festival of Annunciation (March 25), and hence the Incarnation. It is also the date on which the Romans marked the winter solstice.

Around 220, the theologian Tertullian declared that Jesus died on March 25, AD 29. Although this is not a plausible date for the crucifixion, it does suggest that March 25 had significance for the church even before it was used as a basis to calculate Christmas. Modern scholars favor a crucifixion date of April 3, AD 33 (also the date of a partial lunar eclipse).[2] (These are Julian calendar dates. Subtract two days for a Gregorian date.)

By 240, a list of significant events was being assigned to March 25, partly because it was believed to be the date of the vernal equinox. These events include creation, the fall of Adam, and, most relevantly, the Incarnation.[3] The view that the Incarnation occurred on the same date as crucifixion is consistent with a Jewish belief that prophets died at an "integral age," either an anniversary of their birth or of their conception.[4][5]

Aside from being nine months later than Annunciation, December 25 is also the date the Romans marked the winter solstice, which they referred to as bruma. For this reason, some have suggested the opposite of the theory outlined above, i.e. that the date of Christmas was chosen to be the same as that of the solstice and that the date of Annunciation was calculated on this basis. (The Julian calendar was originally only one day off, with the solstice falling on December 24 in 45 BC. Due to calendar slippage, the date of the astronomical solstice has moved back so that it now falls on either December 21 or December 22).

The idea that December 25 is Jesus' birthday was popularized by Sextus Julius Africanus in Chronographiai (AD 221), an early reference book for Christians. This identification did not at first inspire feasting or celebration. In 245, the theologian Origen denounced the idea of celebrating the birthday of Jesus "as if he were a king pharaoh." Only sinners, not saints, celebrate their birthdays, Origen contended.

In 274, Emperor Aurelian designated December 25 as the festival of Sol Invictus (the "unconquered sun"). Aurelian may have chosen this date because the solstice was considered the birthday of Mithras, a syncretic god of Persian origin. Mithras is often identified with Sol Invictus, although Sol was originally a separate Syrian god.

Mithras was a god of light and a child of the earth who sprang up next to a sacred stream. He was born bearing a torch and armed with a knife. Some later Mithratic beliefs were derived from Christianity, such as the belief that Mithras' birth was attended by shepherds. Sundays were dedicated to Mithras and caves were often used for his worship. A series of emperors promoted Mithraism beginning with Commodus. The cult emphasized loyalty to the emperor and Roman soldiers were expected to participate. Mithraism collapsed rapidly after Constantine I withdrew imperial favor (312), despite being at the peak of its popularity only a few years earlier.

As Constantine ended persecution, Christians began to debate the nature of Christ. The Alexandrian school argued that he was the divine word made flesh (see John 1:14), while the Antioch school held that he was born human and infused with the Holy Spirit at the time of his baptism (see Mark 1:9-11). A feast celebrating Christ's birth gave the church an opportunity to promote the intermediate view that Christ was divine from the time of his incarnation.[6] Mary, a minor figure for early Christians, gained prominence as the theotokos, or god-bearer. There were Christmas celebrations in Rome as early as 336. December 25 was added to the calendar as a feast day in 350

Answer 7

By having Christmas near the winter solstice, it was easier to get the pagans on board. I don't remember the whole story behind it, but the Christmas tree has its origins in pagan tradition, as well.

Answer 8

They celebrate the birth of Jesus not his birth date. There is a difference.

Answer 9

No they don't and actually they have come closer to the real date,if you read up about it you would see that you are quite right, but the date was chosen for varying reasons and to change it now would prove to be futile. Think about it, all those countries, all those governments, the red tape... and la la la

Answer 10

HE was really born some time in Oct. because at that time you had to pay your taxes after your crops were harvested, and that was in Oct.